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So what is the solution? Blood? Love? It is hard to imagine a peaceful retreat from the violent monsters that swarm Mexico. It is also hard to imagine the government engaging in what may be called a civil war, to overrun corruption and drug cartel violenc

The poster reads "Legalize" or "Legaliza" wich of course refers to legalizing drugs. The economic incentive is what drives drug trafficking and narco violence. If drugs were decriminalized, prices would come down dramatically (probably causing Mexico's ec

Educación y Paz / Education & Peace by Estela Hinojosa Durán
Education is the message in this poster. My concept is that the best way to peace is educating people, since childhood. Education encourages people to search for peace so that their lives are

For all of us who live in a city like Cd. Juarez, Chih. Mexico, it is commonto find on a daily basis a violent event in all the different media, if not in real life and personally.
Using a dove to represent peace may be way too common, yet we use it

"Thank you for shopping with US" by Berenice Mendez is this week's Peace of Art poster of the week. She elaborates on her poster, "The violence in Mexico, so harshly condemned by US authorities has been largely funded by an extensive web of
gun trade tha

"Unholy Smoke" designed by Clive Cochran is this week's Peace of Art Poster of the week. He says, "Personally, I believe marihuana should be legalized. However, in the current climate of violence, I also believe that boycotting drugs is the
only acceptab

"Juares Underground" Designed by Cesar Espinoza is this week's poster of the week. Espinoza says, "We Juarenses still living here, remember the days when we could expose our lives to the sun and our thoughts to the air. Juarez is underground because our l

This poster is about looking beyond of what is in front of you. In order for one to find peace one has to get close to the danger, death in order to find peace. The actions and engagement is what activates the poster or in other terms the "PEACE."

this poster represent the crude reality that the state of Chihuahua, Mexico is going through. The raw meat represents all the deaths, the pain and suffering of a desperate society. The Gauze represents the hope that I believe can heal the pain that has be

Colgar los Tenis by Jair Tapia is this week's poster. He explains, " The semiotic conventions from both sides of the border regarding the image of a pair of sneakers hanged from power lines, state signifiers that I was interested in addres
sing through m